Kanani Shipped! Plus Giveaway Ramblings and Our Mission

That took forever! Our American Girl order finally says shipped and our Kanani stuff could be here tomorrow or Friday. Isn't that exciting?!!? That means we can start off the Winter 2011 Doll Giveaway soon and we will also start the January 25th Anniversary giveaway as well. Sew Fun Doll Clothes of Etsy has sent us some awesome socks and tights that we will feature as this month's giveaway items. And Terrie of All Dolled Up Doll Clothes is giving us something to include with our Doll Giveaway. Yay!

So we have gotten a lot of new readers lately and we just wanted to state who we are and what we do so that people aren't wondering, "What is this weird blog I have stumbled upon? What is going on here?" Heehee.

I am Nora Demington, an AG Girl of the Year Mia doll that has been renamed and given a sparkling personality. ;-) Ellie is my twin sister, a MyAG #21. Maggie is my little sister, a retired JLY #8. And Stella Grant is our stepsister, a MyAG #25. Penny is our Mom and she is the one who gets all the stuff that I blog about here at The Doll Wardrobe. (She doesn't sew-- none of us do-- we don't even own a sewing machine. We lack those skilz. Heehee.)

We started this blog over two years ago to showcase handmade clothing for American Girl dolls because when we started looking to collect such items and expand our 18" clothing collection it was very difficult to track down sellers and seamstresses. We spent hours and hours searching Google, through Ebay, on Etsy, and reading through dozens of forum posts, etc. etc. 

Our mission is to make it a little easier for American Girl fans to find a variety of high-quality clothing for their dolls. While joining AG Playthings or AG Fans can help a lot of people find seamstresses and handmade shops, not everyone is old enough to join those forums because of the laws in place for the protection of minors. So we were hoping our blog could be an open resource to all American Girl fans.

Hence, the vibe of most of our posts is about handmade clothing, but we also talk about a whole bunch of other things including AG merchandise. We added a page to our blog, when Blogger started doing pages, for Links to Handmade Clothing. This is hopefully a good place for people to start looking for new items for their collections. 

If you are a seamstress or shop owner who would like to be featured on that page, please speak up. :-) We will put you on there. Maybe not right away, because sometimes we are slow updating things. Heehee. But don't be afraid to tell us you'd like to be featured there. That is the point of this blog.

In addition, if you would like to be featured in our 25th Anniversary monthly giveaways, feel free to let us know. What is this I am talking about??? Well if you don't know, we are doing monthly giveaways in 2011 for American Girl's 25th Anniversary/Birthday. Many of the giveaway items are being donated by a variety of sellers-- and not just clothing sellers-- we will take anything you have to offer for 18" dolls. This is a fun way to get exposure on our blog. It might not make a huge difference in your sales, but we hope it makes some impact. Since we began this blog we have had over 70,000 unique hits and our fingers our crossed that this has been helping the sellers we feature here.

If anyone has any questions or comments, please feel free to let us know!

p.s. The Never Grow Up blog Innerstar U giveaway is still going on-- check out our previous post for info, or visit the blog via our side menu.